I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the term DevOps and what it really means. This train of thought is partially inspired by my recent participation in various DevOps Days events, as well as reading the DevOps for Media and Entertainment report published by O’Reilly. So, what is DevOps? Well,…
In our previous post in this series, we suggested treating China as a second Internet. This concept implies the need to setup a separate monitoring strategy that is tailored to China, rather than just adding it on to your existing strategy. This post provides a step-by-step process to getting a…
Breaking into any new geographical market isn’t easy, but China presents a set of unique technical obstacles that makes this especially difficult. In a previous post, we provided an overview of the Chinese market and discussed the need for a different business strategy based on the Golden Shield Project, aka…
As the most populous nation on Earth, China represents tremendous business opportunities for companies with the ability to tap into its market. Of the country’s 1.4 billion people, 53.1% have access to the Internet and Cisco’s VNI report, forecasts this will grow to 66% by the year 2020, and there’s…
There’s been a lot of discussion lately regarding the need to track and improve MTTR, but what exactly does MTTR mean? Well, MTTR can stand for several different things: mean time to repair, mean time to recovery, and mean time to resolve. Not only are there different definitions, but when…
The complexity of services needed to deliver an online experience that meets customer’s expectations has grown tremendously over the years. Most of this is hidden to the customer; they only see the site they are viewing, not the ISPs, CDNs, APIs, or the IaaS providers that all have to seamlessly…
This year Velocity celebrated its 10th anniversary. A lot has changed in the past 10 years. Velocity has gone from a conference being held once a year to three yearly events, including international locations. Velocity was THE conference to attend to network and learn about web performance. It covered performance…
Change is the only constant in life. There are many definitions of change, but for the purpose of this blog, I will define change as any deviation or variation between two or more instances. Just as we as humans experience changes in our mood on a regular basis, applications often change from release…
This was my first time at Monitorama, which took place in Portland last week, and what an experience it was. I began my career in the monitoring space many years ago and after some time away, I have recently found myself back in the industry. Monitorama solidified precisely why I decided…
I’ve previously written about what it means to have a healthy network and the need for organizations to rethink their network monitoring strategy. There are two main reasons to monitor the network: to identify route health and to catch connectivity issues from a geographical perspective. Route health can be monitored…
